Deposition of Ellenor Reinolds
- Reference: MS 832, fols 167r-168r
- County: Cavan
- Date: undated
- Type: Dublin Original
- Nature of Deposition: Captivity, Military Action, Robbery, Stripping, Words
- How to Cite
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Ellenor Reinolds of Late of Lissamnore in the County of Cauan widow aged 46 yeares or thereabouts duly sworne &c.
saith that one Gillernoo mc Gowran of Kildoe Com aforesaid Hugh mc Manus oag mc Gowran of the same gent Hugh oag mc Hugh mc Gowran with divers others to the number of about 300 hauing been in the night of the 24th of October 1641 at divers houses < B > of the English inhabitants in the parish of Dromlane and robbed & stripped them of all their goods & wearing clothes they came the next morning to this deponents dwelling house and lands at Lissanore & then & there robbed & tooke away with them 71 Cowes, besides many yong Cattle, eleuen stoodd mares & other horses & Colts to the va{
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Cormack mc Gowran of Munlogh vncle to the said Thomas Ooney mc Gowran and divers other Rebels to the number of three of or fower score, and there did abide drinking all night & often threatned to Murther this deponents husband and her father, which they often said they would doe & did < C > attempt it but by fortune the Masse priest of the parish lodging there that night threatned them with Curses till they promised not to hurt them, but in the morning they plundered all the house & caried what was left by the former Rebells away with them
she further saith that the said Gillernooe did afterwards possesse himself of this deponents dwelling house & eleuen Reeks of hay, and a faire haggard full of Corne, as also her Corne in ground all worth at least 150 li. ster. and would not allow one peck of the said Corne to mainteine this deponent & her father, husband & family.
she further saith that about a full moneth after the first rising one Charles mc Gouran of Ballimack Gouran Com aforesaid came to the priests house situate neer this deponents dwelling house & thence tooke away 2 of this deponents trunks full of fine linen wearing apparell & plate & other goods & writings of great concernment, & broke open the said Trunks & made vse of the goods ther in, though he had formerly engaged not to medle with them but to keep them safe for this deponent: whereby this deponent lost aboue 100 li. ster.
< D > This deponent further saith that the aforesaid Tirlogh Rely and Hugh mc Hugh mc Manus oag mc Gowran {
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were kept & hid for 14 daies till opportunity served to convey them to the Castle of Croghan
she further saith that in May 1642 this deponents mother not being able (because of age & weaknes) to goe to Croghan Castle) was left behind with some of < E > the tenants at Lissanore aforesaid, where she was about the tyme aforesaid barbarously murthered by one ffarell Groome mc Kellogher of Crosse mac Kellogher who confessed the said barbarous fact to divers persons that voluntarily did depose the same to be true.
This deponent further saith that the said month of May 1642 she saw one Mr Richard Ash of Lissomean and one Loughlin bane mc Moister under sheriff of the County with divers other Rebels in armes & helping to besiege the Castle of Croghan
she further saith that the said Laughlin sent 2 or 3 Rogues about 3 daies before the first rising to this deponents said Land of Lissanore & thence they stolle a mare of this deponents & a 3 yeare old Colt worth 50 li.; which Colt this deponent did see afterwards with the said Laughlin riding on him at the aforesaid tyme of besiedging of Croghan Castle, and that the said Mr Ash was riding on a white horse then with the said Laughlin as aforesaid
< f > she further deposeth that about Midsomer 1642 the said Mr Ash did take from a Kinswoman of one ffrancis Sugden at Lissomean some parcells of plate by the way as the English weere going towards Drogheda from Croghan Castle and Convoied by the said Ash with a great Company of Irish souldiers titherwards which was Contrary to the Conditions of quarter at the said Castle of Croghan agreed upon.
And further she this Examinate deposeth not
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Ellenor Reinolds